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It's by all standards a nasty propaganda article, I've never in my life seen such an agressively biased and article being labeled a "review"?!

Finally, after years of western bias and censorship, people in the west have an excellent opportunity to hear the untold and well hidden side of the story, in both words and pictures. What's your fear, Joshua, that some people might start to doubt what CNN told them happened??

You didn't state in your review that other sources such as the Red Cross were also used in the making of this movie. I find it hard to believe the movie could have been more one sided than your review. You use links in your review such as CRONET. Is't that a pretty onesided Croation view on things that went on. I think that was the whole point of this movie, to show a point of view seldom heard in the states, or on web sites such as yours.

Editor's note:
The movie quoted the Red Cross, Human Rights Watch, and the like a few times when they criticized the United States for bombing Belgrade during the Kosovo conflict, but turned a blind eye to human-rights organizations' abundant criticism of the Serbs.

About sources: You will note that I also linked to pro-Serbian sources such as the Serbian Unity Congress, and to objective sources such as MSNBC. And the point of the Cronet link, as well as half a dozen others, is to demonstrate that the producer, Mr. Bogdanich, is identified all over the Internet as a longtime Serbian-American activist. That's not partisan information -- it's simply a fact, which Mr. Bogdanich did not disclose when the film was released but has since confirmed in an interview.

Incidentally, I tend to agree with the criticism of the U.S. bombing Belgrade. I also think this film would have been much more palatable if it had identified itself as presenting a Serbian point of view from the beginning. There are a lot of positive things to say about the Serbian people's response to the events of the last decade, including many stories of people who saved the lives of non-Serbs, the heroic efforts of the opposition press to continue publishing and broadcasting in the face of government repression, and the courage of many thousands of regular people who demonstrated for democracy in freezing conditions until the Milosevic regime was removed. It could be argued that those in power, backed by barely half of the population in elections, made Yugoslavia into a vicious authoritarian state against the will of many of the people. Curiously, the film doesn't try to make this case. It is concerned with obscuring Serb atrocities, not explaining them.

It would have been possible to find some respect for this film if it had acknowledged the horrors perpetrated by the Serbian and Bosnian Serb military while showing that Serbs also suffered and acted heroically. But it makes no effort to balance its story. Simply put, it is propaganda. If you get a chance to see it, you will indeed see how one-sided it is.